Some Applications of Kalman Filtering in Advanced Land Fire Control System

Abstract

The report describes several potential applications of Kalman filters for advanced land fire control systems. Two areas that are especially important in the moving-target/moving-platform scenario are addressed in some detail: the tracking and trajectory prediction of multiple maneuvering targets and the prediction of gun pointing angles in the instant before firing. This is particularly important in the design of a dynamic muzzle reference system. The equations for the filters are developed, simulations are described, and some real data is processed through the muzzle angle prediction filter. An architecture for a complete advanced land fire control system is proposed. Filtering, Fire control, Target tracking, Gun dynamics, Muzzle reference.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA267542

Entities

People

  • J. S. Bird

Organizations

  • Defence Research and Development Canada

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cartesian Coordinates
  • Computational Science
  • Detectors
  • Differential Equations
  • Fire Control Systems
  • Image Processing
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Kalman Filters
  • Mathematical Filters
  • Mathematical Models
  • Measurement
  • Multitarget Tracking
  • Navigation
  • Range Finding
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • ballistics.